3 Best Ball Striking Tips

Honma Custom Fitting Specialist and PGA Pro Luke Peterken can help you strike your irons better

best ball striking tips

Honma Custom Fitting Specialist and PGA Pro Luke Peterken can help you strike your irons better

3 Best Ball Striking Tips

Does your ball striking need to improve? You're in the right place!

In this video, Honma Custom Fitting Specialist and PGA Professional Luke Peterken talks us through three tips and drills to help you begin striking your irons more consistently.

1. Posture

Your posture needs to be athletic and keeping a good posture on every shot brings consistency to every shot that we approach.

Golf is tiring so it is easy to get lazy with your posture in the latter stages of a round, which frees you up and loosens you up to perhaps go to places in the swing that you shouldn't.

To find the best posture, I have a 4 step process that allows me to know that I'm standing over the golf ball the same every time...

1) Firstly I aim to my target line and then put my feet together and stand up straight out with the club extended in front of me

2) Keeping my legs straight I'll bend forward until the golf club head is level with my knees

3) Then I'll take the width of my stance

4) Then I'll unlock my knees, this puts me in the perfect posture

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2. Step drill

This drill allows us to ensure that we are moving towards the target.

A common fault when it comes to poor iron strikes is to lean back on it and try to help the ball up, which this drill stops.

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3. Headcover drill

We're taught to hit down on the golf ball with irons and this is a good drill for it.

Place a soft object 10-12 inches behind the ball and try to hit the ball without hitting the object.

Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV